Sandia National Laboratories, October 31, 2011:With a muffled “pop,” a flash of blue light and a few ripples through 14,000 gallons of deionized water, Sandia National Laboratories’ Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) recently conducted its 10,000th operation. “The ACRR has been a real workhorse for Sandia, and labs leadership and the nation rely on these experiments and other weapons component testing done at Sandia to support certification of the nuclear weapon stockpile,” said Lonnie Martin, an ACRR operator - Sandia’s Annular Core Research Reactor conducts 10,000th operation

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"Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted" - Franz Kafka

I think it's always been the right time for Thorium. I think it's been the right time ever since the research was cancelled in 1974 ... The United States would probably have achieved energy independence around 2000. Our fossil fuel usage would be diminishing every year. We wouldn't have nuclear waste issues like we're facing today. Fukishima wouldn't have happened. Three-mile Island wouldn't have happened.

The amount of Thorium it would take to provide all the power to run you entire life is about the size of a marble

A still more glorious dawn awaits: not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise - a morning filled with four hundred billion suns.

Leonardo Maugeri, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, June 2012:Contrary to what most people believe, oil supply capacity is growing worldwide at such an unprecedented level that it might outpace consumption. This could lead to a glut of overproduction and a steep dip in oil prices. Based on original, bottom-up, field-by-field analysis of most oil exploration and development projects in the world, this paper suggests that an unrestricted, additional production (the level of production targeted by each single project, according to its schedule, unadjusted for risk) of more than 49 million barrels per day of oil (crude oil and natural gas liquids, or NGLs) is targeted for 2020, the equivalent of more than half the current world production capacity of 93 mbd - Oil: The Next Revolution

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"Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted" - Franz Kafka